CS:GO is an older game, and even though CS2 has been announced and is currently in beta, Valve have already announced that they will make sure that the game will keep running well even on lower tier machines. This means that it won’t be difficult to get a decent amount of frames when playing Counter-Strike 2, and that’s great news for competitive gamers.

There’s an abundance of advantages that you get from gaming at higher framerates, and the fact that not a single professional CS:GO player plays at 60 Hz should also tell you something. In fact, around 86% of all CS:GO pros in our database are playing on a 240 Hz setup (and over 7% have already switched over to a 360Hz monitor) meaning that we consider that to be the competitive standard for this game. Recently, 1440p 360Hz gaming monitors with Ultra-fast IPS displays have been coming out, and given the fact that computers are getting more and more powerful we could see these becoming the norm in competitive gaming over the next couple of months/years.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is pretty easy to run and reach a decent amount of frames on (even at 1440p) but in a game without bullet magnetism or any sort of aim assistance you’ll definitely want to maximize your frames to get a clear view of the battlefield. As we’ve already established in our article: the advantages of gaming at higher framerates don’t end when you’ve saturated your monitor’s refresh rate.

With that being said: you need to take your entire build into consideration when shopping for a GPU. If you’ve got a 1080p 144Hz monitor and you’re not planning on upgrading anytime soon you absolutely won’t need a top of the line card to run the game at acceptable framerates, for example. As is the case with every game you’ll need a decently balanced setup. Especially for CS:GO (which is very CPU dependent) you will want to get a good CPU along with a decent amount of RAM and so on, so always make sure to consider your budget and build your rig around that. Don’t handicap yourself by going for a great GPU that gets bottlenecked by subpar surrounding components.